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The university in a corporate culture
- Title
- The university in a corporate culture / Eric Gould.
- Author
- Gould, Eric, 1943-
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | LC67.62 .G68 2003 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xviii, 243 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Over the past century, higher education in the United States has developed an increasingly powerful corporate ethos, as institutions compete for students, faculty, and funding. This book examines how the liberal democratic principles driving higher education often conflict with market pressures to credential students and offer knowledge that has a clear exchange value. Eric Gould argues that the failure to structure the curriculum so that it integrates responsible social idealism and humanism with economic and cultural needs constitutes the moral crisis of the university. Gould analyzes the economics and politics of higher education, showing how student consumerism, culture wars, faculty alienation, trustee activism, and a split between the concepts of "culture" and "society" have all resulted from the unholy alliance between pragmatism, corporatism, and liberalism in higher education. He asserts that what is needed is a general education for undergraduates that promotes the ability to critique power relations (including those within higher education) so that students can understand how social forces--and their embodiment of ideas, ideologies, and claims for truth--shape contemporary public philosophy.
- Subject
- Freie Universität Berlin Allgemeiner Studentenausschuß Kulturreferat
- Education, Higher > Economic aspects > United States
- Business and education > United States
- Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States
- Business and education
- Education, Higher > Aims and objectives
- Education, Higher > Economic aspects
- Selbstverständnis
- Tertiärbereich
- Wirtschaft
- Aspect économique
- Culture d'entreprise
- Enseignement universitaire
- Finalité de l'éducation
- Relation école-industrie
- Université
- Universität
- United States
- USA
- États-Unis
- USA
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-237) and index.
- Contents
- A complex mission in a market culture -- The consumerist culture of the university -- A corporate ethos -- Faculty and the division of labor -- The ideal of a liberal education -- Knowledge, modernity, and pragmatism -- Democratic education.
- ISBN
- 0300087063
- 9780300087062
- LCCN
- 2002014242
- OCLC
- ocm50554346
- 50554346
- SCSB-8905737
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library